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GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:55 with 15 CHs.

Patriot wrote:GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:55 with 15 CHs.

They just headed east at Ball St with 7 CHs. Looks like they might be trying to double the hill due to snow on the rails. The remaining 8 CHs were tied down between Ball and Fuller.

1st half of the train at Alta Dale:

GRE --- WB Leonard at 3:48 with 12 CHs.

Michigan Shore 2019 is currently working Nugent sand in Norton shores. I caught them with 8 empty sand cars at McCracken headed west.

1:30 edit:
2019 pulled 19 sand loads from Nugent. They are headed back after spotting the empties

2:10 edit:
It appears 2019 tied down their loads at Henry and put the power in the Barn for the night

Grand Elk GP40-2W is at CN Kilgore Yard. No idea of the engine # or amount of cars. Just barely visible in this weather.

UPDATE: Still unknown on Engine # but I can confirm that there is one CH tied onto the power. CN crew appears to be waiting for the Elk to get moving before getting to work.

GRE --- EB Leonard at 10:32 with 9 CHs.

The HESR was headed west from Pigeon at 9:50. The short train was lead by what looked like HESR 2028 but I wasn't close enough to catch the numbers and one of the ISRR units. They had 6 beat up MWCX hoppers that they picked up from Tower in Elkton and a blue HESR boxcar that was sitting at the COOP terminal just east of Elkton. Normally the scrap gons from Tower are new looking OMNX. Definitely a different looking train from the normal westbound through the area.

It's a pleasant surprise Tower still ships scrap by rail. All their other locations use trucks.

pbmaxno15 wrote:The HESR was headed west from Pigeon at 9:50. The short train was lead by what looked like HESR 2028 but I wasn't close enough to catch the numbers and one of the ISRR units. They had 6 beat up MWCX hoppers that they picked up from Tower in Elkton and a blue HESR boxcar that was sitting at the COOP terminal just east of Elkton. Normally the scrap gons from Tower are new looking OMNX. Definitely a different looking train from the normal westbound through the area.

0747hrs LS&I 7-Weigher is getting ready to head to partridge to get empties. Power is 1001 1013

CAT345C wrote:0747hrs LS&I 7-Weigher is getting ready to head to partridge to get empties. Power is 1001 1013

Enjoy your time in the UP with NEVETS!

She's going pretty well, caught the Mineral Range last night..

https://flic.kr/p/EmTzhp

GRE --- EB Leonard at 8:32 lite.

Hearing GDLK down by Byron Center. Don't know if they were NB or SB.

GRE --- EB Leonard at 8:28 with two CHs and one tank. Interesting that there were three CHs in the yard this morning...they left one behind??

GRE --- WB Leonard at 11:42 with 9 CHs.

GRE crew on Duty, however, 3885 is getting warmed up. Cannot tell if 24 is running, but we have a lot of cars in the yard.

Hooking up 24, if they gather everything that's in the yard right now, I'm guessing we will have a 20-30 car train.

As of 9:25, a blue flag has been placed on the engine house track and some work to 3885 is being performed.

As of 10:30, blue flag has been removed.

Well, according to the crew 3885 is being readied for a day's work and the crew won't be on duty for a while. Not sure when but I got up at 7:15 for this...

As of 11:25, looks like we finally have a crew.

As of 12:50, a train is being built.

As of 1:35, doing an air test. Train is over 30 cars long. If you want a big train with big power on the GRE, this is it! They do have cars for Amway, so they will stop in Ada.

GRE is departing with 32 cars!

MMRR crew dead in Lowel, most likely to continue Monday.

MMRR Just heard at the Kulross crossing.

MrRail wrote:MMRR Just heard at the Kulross crossing.

Heading westbound past Spaulding now.